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Where is Charlie Wilson when you need him?

Posted on 2012-10-07 by Andreas Moser

Charlie Wilson was a member of the US House of Representatives who in the 1980s lobbied intensively for arming the Afghan rebels against the Soviet Union. He personally secured a lot of the funding for the Afghan Mujahideen from the … Continue reading →

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